OAKLAND — The City Council will consider asking voters to approve a $148 million bond to turn the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center into the new main public library, build two new libraries and improve services at all of Oakland’s branches.

Implementing the entire Library Master Plan, which took years to craft, would have cost $240 million. But a poll conducted last weekend found such a costly bond would likely fail, Library Director Carmen Martinez said.

That prompted library officials to scale back plans and offer a smaller bond, Martinez added. If the bond measure is endorsed Tuesday by the council, and if two-thirds of voters say yes on Nov. 7, property owners would see their annual tax bills go up by about $39.60 per $100,000 of assessed value.

The new proposal would expand the Asian, Dimond, Lakeview, Martin Luther King Jr., Piedmont Avenue and West Oakland libraries, and build two new ones in the Laurel neighborhood and on 81st Avenue in East Oakland. City officials hope the Oak Knoll development in East Oakland also will include a new library.

The plan for the new main library at the Kaiser Center, which was closed six months ago after losing money for several years, would preserve the Calvin Simmons Theater and two ballrooms.

The seating in the arena would be demolished to build four or five floors into the historic structure around a central atrium lit by a new skylight and restored windows. Only 110,000 square feet would be completed,leaving an additional 40,000 square feet to be finished when funds become available, officials said.

The cost of the revised plan is estimated at $163 million, and library officials hope the remaining $15 million will come from grants and donations.

The council’s Rules Committee on Thursday did not endorse any of the various options for a library bond measure.

Council President Ignacio De La Fuente (Glenview-Fruitvale) said he would not support the bond measure, noting the city has overtaxed property owners.

“I’m not willing to continue raising taxes without being sure we are maximizing every dollar we already get from taxpayers,” De La Fuente said.

In addition, De La Fuente said the plan would not benefit the entire city because it excludes funding for new libraries in the Hoover and San Antonio neighborhoods.

At a meeting of the council’s Life Enrichment Committee Tuesday night, Councilmember Desley Brooks (Eastmont-Seminary) said she could not support the revised plan because it favors wealthy areas of the city over blighted areas such as Eastmont and West Oakland.

“Whole communities are ignored in this plan,” Brooks said.

On Tuesday, city officials will weigh another proposal for the Kaiser Center, which once hosted concerts, basketball games and graduations. The proposal from the Bay Area World Trade Center would transform the Kaiser Center into a showcase for importers and exporters in an effort to thrust Oakland to the forefront of international trade.

At the request of Councilmember Jane Brunner (North Oakland), the council will consider an option to build a new main library somewhere other than the Kaiser Center, perhaps by demolishing or adding to the existing main library at 14th and Oak streets.

Councilmember Henry Chang Jr. (At-large) said a bond measure for a new main library somewhere other than the Kaiser site is likely to fail.

Councilmembers Jean Quan (Montclair-Laurel), Patricia Kernighan (Grand Lake-Chinatown), Larry Reid (Elmhurst-East Oakland) and Chang have endorsed plans for a new main library at the Kaiser Center.

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